Et tu Ari?
By on Feb 14th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Et tu Ari?
“Ari Fleischer, who served as President George W. Bush’s first press secretary, added to the growing criticism of Vice President Dick Cheney’s handling of the weekend shooting incident in Texas, telling E&P this afternoon that it ‘crosses the threshold of news worthiness that ought to be announced and explained.’”
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I think Ari should better watch what he says…
I’ve been gone all day and all you can do is thread firing range targets?
February 14th, 2006 at 6:04 pmAri got out while the getting was good. He knew these scandals were brewing and he didn’t want to be the pinata that Scotty has become.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:04 pmMaybe we didn’t give Ari enough credit. Perhaps he was warning us when he suggested we “watch what we say”…
February 14th, 2006 at 6:06 pmSo did Marlin Fitzwaters, bush41 press secretary as VP and Pres
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996613
February 14th, 2006 at 6:06 pmI wonder if they can see these scandals from outer space. They should form one of the most prominent features on Earth.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:07 pmI do believe that the President and Vice president should be alloowed to have, to some extent, a “personal life”. And I am all for keeping what’s personal out of the public domain. So if the Vice President was, say, at a wedding reception for a family friend, and the rest of the guests were friends of the family as opposed to Washington types, and the Vice President were to have a bit too much to drink and start mouthing off at his wife, I don’t think that would be newsworthy enough to tell the world. I mean, I do believe that a line of privacy exists.
But when the Vice President shoots a 78-year-old man in the face, I think the line has been crossed and you tell people about it.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:10 pmAri Fleischer and Scott McClellan need to hurry up and wrestle in a kiddie pool of rose petals and tuna fish.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:10 pmThis will bring warmth and laughter back into the WH press corps hearts and minds. Hell, they should even let Davie G. be the ref.
That should bring order back to this situation, no?
#2: Ari proves, once again, that he wasn’t stupid, just EVIL!
February 14th, 2006 at 6:11 pmI’ll bet Cheney nearly killed that f*cker. I’ll bet they freaked out.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:11 pmAri knows a LOT….. Perhaps he’s greasing his own skids for the upcoming re-make of “All the Presidents Creatures”
February 14th, 2006 at 6:18 pm>Fleischer further asserted that after several days the story had lost some of its interest to most Americans. “This is now a real inside-the-beltway controversy,” he said. “The American people watched it and heard about it Sunday night and Monday morning; it was widely covered. They heard the news and saw the story. It is not dominating the lives of the American people.”
Apparently, Ari has gained the super power of omniscience since his departure from the Bush Administration!
February 14th, 2006 at 6:19 pmIt is quite the gall for Ari “watch what you say” Fleischer to come out and pontificate about what needs to be explained.
During this administration, lots of things have crossed the “threshold of news worthiness” and need a little explaining. Many of those things happened during Ari’s time in the White House.
Maybe Ari could explain to all of us the real reasons behind the invasion of Iraq. That’s news worthy.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:25 pmI love how they’ve decided that the American people aren’t interested in this story. How could they possibly conclude this when the American people haven’t been given all the facts yet because the Vice President, who shot a 78-year-old man in the face, refuses to sober up, come forward, and explain what happened? Remember how President George H.W. Bush used to think of us American citizens as his “bosses”? It’s too bad he couldn’t get his son to embrace that philosophy.
And what, if anything, has the Vice President’s office said about this? (I haven’t heard.) McClellan kept telling everyone that they would have to ask the Vice President’s office, and I thought I heard one of the reporters tell him yesterday that they weren’t talking. Have they talked yet? And does their story match what we’ve learned so far?
February 14th, 2006 at 6:35 pmMaybe Scott McClellan wants to go back to Plamegate or Abramoffgate or NSAgate, since he doesn’t want to talk about the vice president shooting somebody in the face.
February 14th, 2006 at 7:17 pm“Maybe Scott McClellan wants to go back to Plamegate or Abramoffgate or NSAgate”
I know I certainly would.
February 14th, 2006 at 7:22 pmAri Fleischer got out when he saw the water was getting too hot. Nonetheless, he can pontificate on what he would have done were he still press sec’y, but that doesn’t mean it would have been handled any differently. Cheney is a secretive guy – has been so since day one – and he believes he, like Bush, is above reproachment and the law.
February 14th, 2006 at 7:29 pmThis is a nasty story that only confirms the worst that any of us have ever thought about Cheney — he is a heartless SOB, a reckless man who fails to take necessary precautions, a privileged individual who, even as a public servant, feels he doesn’t have to answer to the anyone.
#13 One press release about paying a $7 fee for hunting birds, late but better than never, One press release praying for Mr. Whittington, (and for this nightmare to go away)
February 14th, 2006 at 7:31 pm#13: I betcha the NRA and its members are plenty interested in this story. They just loves them Republicans oodles, but imagine the shame they feel now that they’ve learned the biggest, meanest, surliest Republican of them all is nothing but a sissy-boy who can’t fire a gun without blowing buckshot into a senior citizen and nearly killing him; and then, shame shame shame, good ol’ boy Cheney tries to turn to blame on the one that got shot. Hunters are supposed to be men of honor, not girlymen who point fingers. Cheney is such a loser.
February 14th, 2006 at 8:19 pmAnd After plugging a hapless and helpless 78 year old man, Bush and Cheney send some women out to blame the victim.
They are blaming the victim. I am outraged at this effort at the Whitehouse to blame the victim.
Blaming the victim of a shotgunning is wrong.
Please, Dick Cheney, Mary Matalin, Scott McLellan, don’t blame the victim.
When you blame the victim, you are playing the blame game and that is wrong.
-GSD
February 14th, 2006 at 10:56 pmShot through the heart -
February 14th, 2006 at 11:35 pmand you’re to blame – honey
you give looooove – a bad name
It wasn’t the victims fault ,Cheney really needs to step up and be a man and say I got off my shot and wasn’t thinking even tho’ he was directly in front of me.
Cheney was prolly pissed ,maybe hewas being goded over the NSA wiretaping of American Citizens and Cheney was being himself like on the Senate Floor with the Fuk you I’ll teach you ,Bam! ooops thought that was a Quall…
February 15th, 2006 at 7:34 amAri was even worse lol. He knows clearly that the strategy there was to: spin and delay, even when doing that would hurt the administration. Drag your feet by default.
R2K
February 15th, 2006 at 7:35 am